SFTP Compatibility

Wouldn't you like it if instances of Net::SFTP supported the same commands as regular Net::FTP? Sure, we all would. Just require 'sftp_compatibility' and you'll be writing code that seamlessly swaps between ftp and sftp. Yay!

Currently supported commands, developed against net-sftp 1.1.0:

• chdir
• delete
• mkdir
• nlst
• putbinaryfile
• rmdir

Here's a typlical use case (actually the only one right now):

require 'net/ftp'
require 'net/sftp'
require 'sftp_compatibility'

def do_stuff(ftp)
  ftp.chdir('phil')
  ftp.mkdir('test_dir')
  ftp.chdir('test_dir')
  ftp.nlst.each{ |f| p f }
  ftp.putbinaryfile('local_filename', 'testfile')
  ftp.nlst.each{ |f| p f }
  ftp.delete('testfile')
  ftp.chdir('..')
  ftp.rmdir('test_dir')
end

@protocol = :sftp
@host = 'ftp.domain.corn'
@user = 'phil'
@pass = 'xxxx'

if @protocol == :sftp
  Net::SFTP.start(@host, :username => @user, :password => @pass) do |sftp|
    do_stuff(sftp)
  end
else
  Net::FTP.open(@host, @user, @pass) do |ftp|
    do_stuff(sftp)
  end
end
      

Installation Instructions

 piston import svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/sftp-compat/trunk vendor/plugins/sftp-compat

 script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/sftp-compat/trunk

Rubyforge page is: http://rubyforge.org/projects/sftp-compat/